Then and now.

[daddyusmaximus]

We're all proud of our rigs. Lets take a look down memory lane. Post up your fullsize. How did she look when you got her (Then) and how does she look more recently (Now).
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This is my 1999 F250 Super Duty the day I brought her home, (5 years ago) and in her latest form.

 

[98dango]

http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=157958&d=1367202111


Then the day I got her 4-2013

Now



3" lift made by me 12000 warn winch 35" maxxis big horns

 

[GJStringert]

Ha! I love Then and Now's!

Day I brought it home:



How it sits as of this weekend:



Just finished getting my 5000K HIDs in. Keep the pictures coming!

 

[Seabass]

I'll take some of this action...

 

[Seabass]

Crap....wrong project... This is it-

 

[Kowboy]

I wanna play!!

My projects have been known to drag out for years ... or even decades. Not this one. I'm done with all that. Decided to exchange money for time and start Livin' the Dream.

Here she is absolutely bone friggin' stock on March 30, 2013. Check out the runnin' boards and the lil' mudflaps.





She was completed 9 months and a kerbillion dollars later.










Carry on.

 

[AFBronco235]

Farmhand, then... back when I got it in Jan 2013

and now. How it sits as of last week.

 

[pappawheely]

I'll take some of this action...

A tractor with a snorkle on it. Definitely expo worthy.

 

[Seabass]

A tractor with a snorkle on it. Definitely expo worthy.

Yea- I'm thinking I'm just gonna pull a 53' bumper hitch camping rig. It shouldn't have much trouble- lots of low end torque! But it's slow as Christmas on the interstate!


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[Larry]

It’s always neat to see everybody’s transfortations. You have to start somewhere, even if you add 400 lbs. of additional dead weight, 4 ft. taller air intake and dual rear wheels to your tractor. You just have to start somewhere!

Oldest picture I can find… May 1997. Somewhere hidden in my wife’s scrapbooking pile are older pictures from when it was still wearing its little ½ ton running gear on totally 80’s aluminum wheels.

After college graduation and moving to Detroit, MI in June 1997 to work in that building in the back ground. Spent 6 years in Detroit but the truck never drove on any Michigan winter salty roads. It pretty much sat under a car port until excaping Michigan in 2001. Michigan was a great place to LEAVE!

2014: 17 years later

 

[AFBronco235]

Was that a mullet under that hat?

 

[txnight]

I'll take some of this action...

Very nice!! Lots of time spent haying and working the dirt in these old rigs. One of my earliest memories is the smell that the cab of our old combine had. That smell just stays with you!!

 

[Seabass]

Very nice!! Lots of time spent haying and working the dirt in these old rigs. One of my earliest memories is the smell that the cab of our old combine had. That smell just stays with you!!

There's nothing like these older tractors. I can fix nearly everything on that tractor that could possibly go wrong. Give me my wrenches and a tech book and I'm in business! I too love the cab smell. I cut my teeth in a smooth runnin little 4420 combine. The simple mindset suits me (as I'm very simple minded) it's why today my best and nicest truck is 17years old. I just like things I can fix. It's also nice that old trucks and tractors are cheaper- NO PAYMENTS!!

 

[ExpoMike]

I'll play... Day I drove it home from AZ, April 2011

As it sits today (well, not in Death Valley but how it would at my house)

 

[Seabass]

I'll play... Day I drove it home from AZ, April 2011

As it sits today (well, not in Death Valley but how it would at my house)

You have another truck that I've had some lust for. So many great expo trucks here- great job. Look forward to reading more.